Aviation Week & Space Technology

Flight tests for the first time synchronously measured noise on the ground and on the aircraft.

Tecnam’s electric; China unmanned test sites; Canadian AAM; Volocopter’s UAM backbone; Beam solar charger; Loon stratospheric record

Five European countries are now actively exploring or investing in small satellite launch facilities.

NASA tests on Boeing’s 787-10 ecoDemonstrator provided unprecedented system-level acoustic data for improving low-noise airliner designs.

Ask the Editors: Traditional OEMs are likely to maintain a large role in the future of space.

Why Honeywell Aerospace’s chief sees a bright future for the industry despite today’s COVID-19 woes.

Bell is looking to technology from its Model 360 Invictus as a potential template for a medium-size single-engine utility platform.

M&A activity among major A&D players is picking up again, but this time they are shedding assets or tacking on specialties.

History suggests it takes as long to develop a military medium rotorcraft as for a fighter, so NATO countries have taken the first steps.

Francisco Gomes Neto talks with Aviation Week in his first interview for the aerospace trade press.

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Air France was early into a radical fleet shake-up set out by Air France-KLM CEO Ben Smith in November.

What’s next for U.S. Air Force tankers; Ecuador receives H145s; continued F-35 delays; and unmanned teaming for Wildcat.

An enlarged second stage would have two engines and more propellant. Much more payload space can be provided.

Some models, like the Airbus A380, are all but done for good.

Ask the Editors: Airbus’ strategy remains expanding its overseas market share, so the OEM is not likely to bring work back to Europe.

Pyka has FAA approval to begin trial operations at farms in California and Nevada.

The government hopes its companies can become more efficient with outside investment. This is extending to airlines.

The Oct. 12 launch of the Gaofen-13 satellite highlights China’s growing reconnaissance-strike complex from space.

If the current fragile jetliner market worsens, the U.S. and other governments might feel pressure to reconsider their nonintervention.

Ask the Editors: There is room for both and overlap between both, and who will win where will play out over the next decade.

Listen in as CEO Francisco Gomes Neto gives his side of Embraer’s breakup with Boeing, what he thinks of finding new partners, and how he plans to steer the Brazilian aircraft company through the COVID-19 storm.

Stratospheric cell mast; Heaviside favors elegance; Pipistrel picks Honeywell; Volansi flies vaccines; Iris enables BVLOS.

A recovery to 2019 levels of profitability remains distant, but carriers believe they can stem daily losses in the medium-term future.

Ask the Editors: Three former NASA administrators agree the U.S. space program needs to use nuclear propulsion.

Plans for major technology demonstrators to shape next generation of single-aisle airliner firming up in Europe and U.S.